I Want To Establish Myself As The

I've Been Hearing This Since I First Joined The Reds Organization, That I'm Going To Be The Next This Or That. It's Tough On A Young Player Coming Up. You Show Some Positive Things And Everybody Jumps On That And Says You Should Be The Next Willie Mays.

I Was Able To Get Operated On Four Days After I Was Diagnosed. It Was Just A Matter Of Getting This Baseball-sized Tumor Out Of Me. I Reflect Now On How Lucky I Was To Be In The Situation Where I Could Get The Best Possible Help And Treatment.

I Don't Even Take Aspirin.

I Love The Game, It's The Greatest Game On Earth, That's Why I Can't Understand All Of This Talk About Trying To Make The Game Better. People Talk About The High Strike Zone And Changing This And That. Why? To Speed Up The Game? That's The Beauty Of Baseball. There Is No Time Element.

I Was Disappointed In Everything - My Start And The Team's Start. People Got Down On Me, But I Never Got Down On Myself. I Still Believed I Could Be The Type Of Player Everyone, Including Me, Thought I Was Going To Be.